Derp from the Dersh

I don’t know if the friend of fascism is being shunned at the Vineyard this summer, but he certainly should be:

The former legal counsel for Al Gore who challenged – and lost – the presidential election results in 2000 says Gore’s team did “the same thing” as what a Georgia prosecutor is claiming Trump committed as a crime. 

Donald Trump is facing a fourth indictment, this time from Fulton County, Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, involving allegations that Trump sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. 

Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, speaking to Fox News Digital, criticized the pending indictment, calling Trump’s actions  “very similar” to that of Al Gore’s legal strategy in the Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 presidential election. 

“We challenged the election, and we did much of the things that are being done today and people praised us. I wrote a bestselling book called ‘Supreme Injustice. Now they’re making it a crime,” Dershowitz said.

Gore filed lawsuits asking for the recounts for which he was clearly entitled and accepted the Supreme Court decision shutting them down, even though the decision was entirely lawless. Which, when you think about it, is very similar to refusing to concede an election you have clearly lost, coming up with a scheme of fake electors to steal the election, and inciting a riot to stop the votes from being counted, if you have suffered very severe brain damage. I’m also reminded that Dershowitz somehow lost a debate about Bush v. Gore to Richard Posner — Posner’s position was completely indefensible, but he’s fifty times smarter so he was able to humiliate Dershowitz anyway.

The funniest thing here is that the Dersh probably thinks that Trump will pay his legal bills.